Inducted:
Jon Anderson
Bill Bruford
Tony Kaye
Trevor Rabin
Chris Squire
Rick Wakeman
Alan White

Hall of Fame Essay (pdf) by Ashley Kahn: [Link]

Jon Wiederhorn - Yahoo Music

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 6:55 PM

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin on the Many Faces of Yes

Jon Wiederhorn

April 6, 2017

Augusto

Thursday, April 13, 2017 7:10 AM

The conflict between Steve , and Jon, and Chris was Brian Lane's(manager) work.Steve and Rick were never friends.Their only affinity was musical .End of the story.

Anon.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:39 AM

Yes (line-up: Steve Howe, Alan White with Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin) performed "Roundabout" (full version) with guest Geddy Lee on bass, followed by "Make It Easy" (excerpt)/ "Owner of a Lonely Heart" with Steve Howe playing bass.

The five Yes musicians that performed all gave speeches. Bill Bruford joined them, but did not speak. Chris Squire was represented by his widow Scotty Squire and their caught Xilan Squire. Tony Kaye was not able to attend, due to health reasons, and was not acknowledged.

The other members of Yes (Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood, Jon Davison) were in the audience along with Steve Howe's eldest son, Dylan and also ex-Yes member Patrick Moraz.

On the 5th of April, Yes (Howe, White, Downes, Sherwood, Davison) appeared live on SiriusXM radio, performing acoustic versions of "Leaves of Green", "Clap" and "Roundabout".

On the 6th of April, Patrick Moraz performed a concert at which Downes and Sherwood made a guest appearance, performed "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes" as a duet in tribute to the late John Wetton.

On the 8th of April, the day after Yes' Hall of Fame Induction, Steve Howe celebrated his 70th birthday with fellow Yes members White, Sherwood and Davison, his son Dylan and also Bill Bruford.

Whitney Johnson

Sunday, April 9, 2017 5:44 PM

Moraz rules!!! I know it would be daunting,but since all his tours involved playing hockey areanas and stadiums, he Might have played in front of more people than any Yes keyboard player!

augusto

Monday, February 6, 2017 10:49 PM

Rick and Steve! Its time to bury the hatchet and play together for the last time!

Wurm

Thursday, January 12, 2017 7:19 AM

I agree, the right individuals are being inducted. The only problem is where is Patrick Moraz. He should be on the list. The 1974,1975, 1976 era with Moraz was beyond the point of amazing. Maybe since he is only on 1 album, Relayer. But that album is better than every YES album with Trever Rabin put together.

Jenelle Janci - LNP Always Lancaster

Sunday, October 16, 2022 7:41 PM

Tait Towers founder thrilled about Yes' induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

JENELLE JANCI | Staff Writer Apr 28, 2017

Before his company built a runway for Taylor Swift, a set for Kanye West and a stage on which Michael Jackson would moonwalk, Michael Tait was the right-hand man for the progressive rock band Yes.

Yes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7 during a ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. For those who were unable to attend, HBO will broadcast the ceremony at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Tait, the founder of Tait Towers, the Lititz company that is the live-event industry’s biggest provider of staging, says his relationship with Yes began in 1968 in a London bar. Tait was working as a bartender when he met the band’s manager, which led to a gig as the band’s driver.Before his company built a runway for Taylor Swift, a set for Kanye West and a stage on which Michael Jackson would moonwalk, Michael Tait was the right-hand man for the progressive rock band Yes.

Yes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7 during a ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. For those who were unable to attend, HBO will broadcast the ceremony at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Tait, the founder of Tait Towers, the Lititz company that is the live-event industry’s biggest provider of staging, says his relationship with Yes began in 1968 in a London bar. Tait was working as a bartender when he met the band’s manager, which led to a gig as the band’s driver.

During the first show he drove the band to, he saw — or rather, heard — an opportunity to help improve the band’s live sound. He worked with the band for 13 years as its tour manager, sound engineer and lighting designer. Tait was the mastermind behind the band’s frequently copied rotating stage.

Tait says the band’s induction is well-deserved.

“In that genre, in the kind of music they were playing with the likes of King Crimson and a few other prog rock bands, they were one of the best,” Tait says. “There’s no doubt about it.”

He just wishes the band’s late bass player, Chris Squire, who died in 2015, was still alive to see it.

“Chris Squire’s passing is a terrible shame,” Tait says. “He is the bass player’s bass player. If you ask any bass player in any band, give us your top favorites, Chris is going to be in there, because he had his own sound.”

Tait says he spoke to Yes vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe about the induction. He says Howe was “absolutely thrilled.”

Currently, there are two different version of the band that are touring. One features Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood and Jon Davison. The other features Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin.

“Steve comes to Lancaster a lot, so I see him a lot… Steve’s Yes band was in Hershey… for a week or so before the last tour,” Tait says.

Tait was unable to attend the induction ceremony in Brooklyn but has his TV set to record the ceremony this weekend. Tait says much of his career can be traced back to that job as the band’s driver.

“That chance meeting with Yes and getting to work with them all those years gave me the experience and the knowledge to eventually come here to America through Clair Brothers (the Lititz-based sound company) because that was our sound company,” Tait says. “(I) was able to start Tait Towers, which was originally a lighting company, since I was a lighting guy for Yes at the end, and it led on to the whole thing, to Rock Lititz.”